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Le premier journal etudiant de l'Universite York
Glendon's Student Weekly
Colle~e • Glel1don • College
Ie 19 septembre 1988
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September 19, 1988
Editor-in-Chief
George D. Browne
Directeur de I'information
Bruno Larose
News Editor
John Sullivan
Entertainment Editor
Sara-jane Milne
Sports Editor
Charles Donskoy
Photography Editor
Ramona Maged
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vacant
Production Manager
Caroline Kjellberg
Office Manager
Obviously there is going to be a Federal election. The speculations by the
press, the leaked intentions by the government, the flexible tyranny of tradition all point to an election called very soon. The exact timing depends on
the whims of Brian Mulroney which are heavily influenced by the P.C.'s
standing in this week's poll.
The major problem with this election is that it offers so little choice, most
of them distasteful to the average voter. In short we can have Bland vs Bull.
The policies of one are the same as the other, with just window dressing
offered as change. This is, of course, taki,ng into account only the two major
parties: the Liberals and the P.C.'s. Which follows conventional Canadian
political ~isdom and writing off the NDP as a dead loss, who are incapable
of getting enough seats to form the government. This is-because everyone
knows that the N.D.P.'s radical policies will never be accepted by the average
Canadian voter (if there is such a creature).
I'm personally more concerned with good government at the moment
than whether the N.D.P. will pull out ofN.A.T.O.or not. (A ,move I'm personally against.) I'm sick of the spectacle of a group of politicians who as soon
as they get elected proceed to wallow in the public purse like a bunch of
well-fed swine. Or, who practise pork barrel politics with blatant disregard
of public opinion.
On the other hand I'm fed up of a party that puts themselves in the red,
with their party fin-ances, for untold millions and then tries to sell themselves as a viable alternative torun this country.
That's why I would like to see the N.D.P. win this election or at least take
a commanding number of seats. Even though I don't agree with everything
they propose, they would approach the problems that ail us as a country in
a much more humani~tic fashion. And like every other political party, the
hard reality of being in office would moderate their policies to a pace and
degree that most Canadians would find tolerable. If nothing else, the policies that we find intolerable can be altered after one term, if we make our
will clear enough. Finally, it would give the other parties the kick in the ass
they need to clea,n up their act and give us some real choice, come the next
election.
Raymond Cheng
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than any other lethal
is unacceptable.
action on this matter.
Not only is, it known
Stefan Caunter man-made compound.
that these substances are
Steven Roberts Genetic resistance to ultradetrimental in the extreme
Neal Stephenson violet radiation is consistent with sound Darto ~he environment, (CFCs
winian principles and
continue to destroy ozone
points humanity toward
molecules for approxi.th'e 21st century.
mately 99 years after their To the editor
Should the coming trorelease into the environHuman frailties should
ment) they are also re- never intervene in the pical environment fail to
dundant. More stable North American capital- materialize, we will have
.plastics, cardboard and ist pastime of acquiring only ourselves to blame.
compressed paper are far wealth. Why shouldn't we Let us take steps to ensure
less damaging to our .be able to carry home our that convenience and good
cafeteria hamburger with weather do come to stay
planet.
It is not that we don't bacon in an environment permanently, and not althink the food is bad; we destroying, convenient, low the trivial concerns of
feel that this is a -social inexpensive little white reactionary primitives to
issue and is better dealt box? Sodium nitrate pro- interfere in our present
with through you, hon- tected us during two world comparative ease.
Sincerely
oured sir, rather than the wars and it has to be good
Caunter S. Thompson
food service ombudsper- for us today. '
Robert A. Stevens
son, since we're on kitChlorofluorocarbons
Stephen J. Nealson
are responsible for more
chen plan.
Thanking you in ad- clean shaves and subsevance for your quick quent social interaction
Unacceptable
To the.editor:
We have noticed an
increase in the use by the
Glendon cafeteria caterer
Restaurontics of CFC containing styrofoam products for take-out purposes. It is our opinion
that in a post~secondary
institution, dedicated to
the preparation of youth
for the future, the use of
ozone-destroying products
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Green Paper
b.v D'Arc.v Butler
It's out! The President's
""green" paper report 'on student governments. Someone
should have told Harry
Arthurs that green is no longer
"'in". Purple is this year's colour.
But have you ever seen purple
duplicating paper?
The report is certainly not
"'green" because it's new, for
this proposal stems from many
drafts and the Gilmor report,
back in 1986. For several years,
the question of the organization and financing of student
governments has been a matter
of great controversy. On Fri'day, Sept. 9, President Arthurs
released his report, aimed at
restructuring student governments and their fumbling
methods. The proposal provides
yet another example of the
Harry Arthurs laying down the
law, regardless of what is most
beneficial to students. Instead
of improvements on the existing system, student governments
will soon be faced with a whole
new,set of problems.
One of the most encumbering items is the implementation
of Faculty-based governments.
It is proposed that first year
students should be required to
join a College. After that, they
may choose to remain affiliated with their college or with
their faculty. Here is where the
problems begin. If a large
majority of students choose
their faculty, the college's funds
will be drastically reduced. The
services that college govern, ments provide will be' greatly
affected. Some colleges fear
that their student newspapers
may become extinct because of
the new proposal. College newspapers are funded through college grants. If they· decrease
significantly with the transfer
of money from colleges to
faculties, they will no longer be
able to support newspapers.
Although faculty governments will be able to provide a
much needed serVice, will there
be adequate funding for both
college and faculty governments, or will the money be
spread too thinly?
Another problem lies in the
new "'Activity Fund" for colleges and faculties. The Activity Fund is for students who do
not wish to join their college or
faculty but still benefit from
it.This money is for student
activities and normally would
be channelled to the student
government. But guess who
controls the activity fund? The
Deans and Masters! This is a
major slap in the face to students. What happened to developing student leadership
skills? The Administration is
taking over the decision making process, which definitely
belongs to the students. After
all, it is student money, and
should clearly be,controlled by
students. Tammy Hasselfeldt,
President of CYSF wrote to
Arthurs; " To ensure student
autonomy, student governments
must have DIRECT control
over their financial resources."
Like most controversies at
York, this one does not direc,tly
affect Glendon, which is both a
college and a faculty. However, it is disturbing to think
that students are losing
trol over their own money.
Last year, 64% of spring election voters at York supported
the idea of a direct student levy.
Clearly, students want to know
where their money is going.
Once again, the administration
is blatantly ignoring student
.wishes. Jennifer Barratt, emminent student leader at Glendon, says the report is unrealistic, given student needs..
Pro Tem3
September 19, 1988
Trait d'union:sans direction~salaires
par Bruno Larose
1£ futur de l' organisme francophone d'animation culturelle
de Glendon, Trait d'union est
compromis. Aucun etudiant n'a
postule les postes de direction,
Ie Departement de Fran~ais a
completement coupe les salaires
et son futur statut fait presentement l'objet de discussions
entre Ie Bureau des services
aux etudiants et l'Association
etudiante du College Glendon
(AECG)..
"'Ce qui arrive est tres dommage," a commente la directrice
- adjointe de Trait'd'union de
l'annee derniere, Claudine
Hamel. "'Nous avons eu une
bonne annee l'annee derniere·
et l'organisme commen~ait a se
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all walks of the film business an spective 0.1· Russian Cinema
opportunity, and excuse, to dating from Stalin to Glasnost
boost their visibility factor via was held) to the Ryerson Theathrusting their business cards tre (home of the soon-to-be
into the palms of others in the released Galas) affected the
range and tone of those films
hopes of either a lunch or a
distribution deal. Some local that were practically offered by
entrepeneurs scored great suc- The Festival Of Festivals. This
cess in and around the Festival situation is often described as
while remaining, largely, in- being the result of the aftervisible.
math of the Festival Of Festi"Somebody, or some group vals two years ago, when
of people had been selling' Famous Players nailed the
counterfeit coupons (passes to still-present boards to the doors
As It carved out a niche for
tre in question (a place where Festival film screenings) for the of its University Theatre
itself in the face of other film
another line of equally deter- past few weeks,~' Kay Armat- cated in roughly the centre of
festivals who devote themselves
mined souls stood waiting for age, a Festival Of Festivals the strip of Bloor St. West
to a global cinema, Toronto's
the slim possibility of buying Programmer, told me. The staked out by The Festival, this
Festival Of Festivals acquired
tickets to the screening during bogus coupons look identical once mammoth Cinema is now
the albatross which dangles
the minutes after the pass- to the official coupons. The
from the neck of any internaholders filled the cinema and only difference is that the faked
tional event. The lack of suffi- the film started) an Usher would coupons are printed on some,cient space (10 theatres, ex- appear with the sorry news that what heavier, somewhat darker
cluding Roy Thompson Hall their waiting had been done in paper. Given the bulk of an
whose services were employed vain and would instruct the audience for any and every
but once; for the splashy Clos- crowd to select another film Festival screening, it is close to the subject of a City of Toronto
ing Night Gala of John Schle- from this; one of the most pub- impossible for' either Theatre zoning debate.
singer's intentionally, yet overly lic oriented festivals of interna- Managers or the Ticket-tearers
Garth Drabinsky, president
trashy Madame Sousataza) to tional films.
to stop and check each and of Cineplex Odeon and the
exhibit the 279 films that made
In the case of the screenIngs every coupon on delivery. These godfather/ messiah of the busup this year's schedule for a
of Palais Royale and' The Out- phoney coupons made 'it more iness end of the Canadian-film
wide public is a situation besiqe Chance of Maximilian difficult for Festival organizers scene, has ruffled the feathers
moaned by Festival patrons
Glick; the producers of either to estimate the size of an of a few 10cal merchants who
and recognized by Festival
film either could or would not audience for any particular film feel that his plans to erect a
organizers.
arrange an advance seating of since they had no record from
Hotel cum Movie Theatre cum
During the course of this
their film for the press and the sales office to gauge the Home of the Festival Of Festiyear's Festival, reports surfaced
industry contingent. As a result; audience's potential size with.
vals throughout the year and
in Toronto's daily newspapers
when either film appeared on
This year, Festival screen- for the duration of each passconcerning the numbers of the screen, there were an equal ings were staged in cinemas ing festival on the site of the
people turned away from Fesnumber of people inside as that spread between Bloor and
University Theatre, would be
tival Of Festival screenings. An there were outside the theatre Bathurst and Yonge and Dun- inappropriate since there are
estimated 'one thousand-plus
trying to get in.
das. While such a sprawl may many ci_nemas nearby and that
movie-goers were unable to get
land is better suited to another
into such Festival hits as Mira
parking lot or haven for Gucci
Nair's Salaam Bombay I, Zhang "American crap like Cocktail brings in a accessories.
Yimou's Red Sorghum and
After being shut out from a
helluva lot more money..."
Glen Salzman's Milk and
screening of first-time Director
Honey. Both Matin Lavut's
Mira Nair's straight-eyed, perPalais Royale and Allan E.
sonality/ epic about the DickensIn addition to providing a
have afforded out-of-town
Goldstein's The Outside Chance showcase for a large body of Festival patrons with something
like waif on the streets of
of Maximilian Glick were in- films which demonstrate a resembling a scenic tour of our
modern-day India: Salaam
accessible to the Festival Of widening range of styles and self-described fair city, the disBomba.vl, a corporate V.LP.
Festival~' public as well.
who refused to be identified
sensibilities, the Festival Of tance between the Bloor Cinema
Regardless of the fact that ,Festivals gives members from (where the Kino E.ve: A Retrogrumbled, "The University
Theatre is not the problem at
all. The real problem here is
that Famous Players has a lot
oftheatres in this (Bloor/ Yonge)
area that they won't make
available to the Festival Of
Festivals for obvious reasons.
American crap like Cocktail
brings in a helluva lot more
money for Famous Players than
something like this, (Salaam
Bomba.vl), ever would. If Famous Players ever decided to
co-operate with the Festival, I
mean look at the way that they
say different things (a Festival
person gave one account of the
situation inside the theatre
which the Theatre Manager
contradicted within a matter of
a few minutes) it would be
more of a Festival."
On one hand; such "sour
grapes," conspiracy realities and
whispered allegations are pretty
much par-for-the-course in such
a situation. New York, Venice
and the Cannes film festivals
Comic Book Confidentials giddy naughtiness
each have similar skeletons in
by Chris Reed
The Festivals Of Festivals an annual smorgasbord of
international cinema served in
the style of a nine-day-Iong pot
luck dinner - completed its
production of year number
thirteen in Toronto on Saturday night.
many of these movie-lovers had
bought their Festival passes
weeks in advance, that they
lined up for the screening a
half-hour to 45 minutes before
the film in question was fired
through the projector, as the
lines slowly inched their way
towards the mouth of the thea-
Somebody had been selling counterfeit
Festival passes
the closet due to the fact that,
like Toronto, they demand a
degree of organization to fulfill
their self-created mandates
which is similar, in broad terms,
to that of the requirements of a
government in a small country
which is under seige. These
chatty tales from the island of
the Festival Of Festivals do
provide a sense of the context
that one of the centre wheels of
this annual Festival addresses.
Amidst the constant whirl of
film being unspooled from reels
in a projector, the annual Trade
Forum conducted a series of
workshops, lectures and seminars on the subject of the busi-
"... the Canadian film business will evaporate
in the space of a feature film"
ness of making film in Canada.
Just as Canadians are beginning to recognize and celebrate
the multiplicity of cultural voices which constitute the hole
that buries.and negates ajingoistic nationalis'm within and for
Canadians; this government has
begun to take legislative steps
towards a conception of Canadian culture as of survival-ofthe-fittest landscapes. The impact of such progressions by
that oxymoron, the Progressive Conservatives on the Canadian film industry was one of
the major focuses of this year's
Trade Forum.
Traditionally, the nemesis of
a thriving film industry in
Canada has not been a lack of
talented artists working within
the medium of film. Indeed,
the core of the false mythology
is the void within the nation of
an indigenous infrastructure for
the distribution, exhibition and
promotion (both in terms of
adyertising and film criticism)
of films made by Canadians.
In his opening statement to
the Industry, Trade Forum
president Stephan Levitan characterized the decrease in capital cost allowances (tax writeoffs) for investors in Canadian
productions - in two years, this
incentive plummeted from 100
to a meagre 30 per cent being
"substantially different from
expectations."
The looming shadow of that
oxymoron described as Free
Trade, prompted a number of
economic advisors to the position of "without three or six
film distribution/ exhibition centres, what we know a~ the Canadian Film Business will evaporate in the space of a feature
film." In the workshops, however, the tone was more celebratory than dirge-like.
In ~he "Independent Producers" workshop, a panel made
from John Frizzel (A Winter
Tan), David Daniels (Palais
Ro.vale), Alexandra Raffe (I've
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Heard the Mermaids Singing),
Stephen Foster (The Outside
Chance 0.1' Maximilian Glick),
This year's selection of David
Cronenberg's Dead Ringers h~s
been termed the boldest open-
The looming shadow of that oxymoron
free trade
In the "Independent Producers" workshop a panel made
from John Frizzel (A Winter
Tan), David Danie~s (Palais
Royale), Alexandra Raffe (I've
Heard the Mermaids Singing),
Stephen Foster (The Outside
Chance o.{ Maximilian Glick),
and Fami~l' v'ie~l'ing writer / director/producer Atom Egoyan
held forth about the problems
involved in bringing a personal
vision to a mass-market audience. Egoyan described the
needs for the budget of a film
to reflect the amount of conviction for the images presented
on the screen and, like his
recent film, sparked off a lively
debate about the vitality -and
energy that is coming forward
from recent Canadian cinema.
While it was filled with struggle, the tone throughout this
conference was one of celebration for the completion and
warm reception of the works in
an international marketplace.
As the conference began,
Telefilm Canada announced its
decision to commit itself to the
creation of works which reflect
and comment on the cultural
life of the nation. As such a
commitment removes, albeit
temporarily, the schizophrenia
of this government organization in terms of its focus to the
community and to the marketplace, there was a feeling of
optimism in the discussions of
the future of feature films in
Canada.
At another Trade Forum,
"Women in the Film Industry", Alexandra Raffe brought
the talk into focus by stating
that, "all we want is to see representations of ourselves that
address our concerns and acknowledge our complexity,
nothing more, nothing less."
One of the more prominent
themes within the films selected
for the programmes at this
year's festival was the cinematic
representation by and of women.
In both Julien Temple's
bubble-bath of art direction,
Earth Girls are EasJ', and Daniel
Daniel's lyrical Egg, the response of men to women is a
central concern. The two highprofile Canadian films at this
year's Festival were equally
concerned with the issue of the
representation of women.
Traditionally, the Opening
Night Gala has set the Festival
Of Festivals in motion by presenting a film that balances the
commercial and artistic interests of the over-all film feast.
lng for any festival.
In recent years, Canadian
films have been selected to kick
off the Festivals. In 1986, Denys
Arcand's The Decline o.{ the
American Empire was the first
to run through the Festival
patron's consciousness. Last
year, it was Patricia Rozema's
I've Heard the Mermaids Singing. Both Decline and Mermaids came to Toronto fresh
from the Cannes Film Festival
where the critical praise poured
over either film helped pave
their way as bankable choices
to open Toronto's Festival.
Unlike Rozema and Arcand,
Toronto's David Cronenberg
does not enjoy a reputation
from which dreams are made
of. Indeed, the subject matter
of his films from Shivers to The
Fly has been that which causes
psychological nightmares and
nervous breakdowns. One of
the recurring problems throughout his works has been his
desire to make his belief in
biology impacting on destiny
explicit in terms of images.
Much of Cronenberg's popular
reputation stems from the way
in which these images resemble
the sound bubbles in cartoons.
In v'ideodrome, stomachs develop lips which hush WOW!!
In The F~v, the main character
Jeremy Irons plays twin gynecologists in Dead Ringers
his cinematic self. "In the film,
a lot of visual ideas in The F(y
have become verbal" said the
-Director. When Dead Ringers
opens in early October, Cronenberg's tale of two brilliant
gynecologists who happen to
be identical twins, twins who
happen to live in a heremetically enclosed emotional state,
who happen to both fall in love
with an actress whose grip on
reality is as delicate as is that of
the Mantle brothers, is certain
to be the Fatal Attraction of
the literary set. Without special
effects or gore, Cronenberg's
tale of distortion within a real-
...their waiting had been
done in vain.
disintegrates piece by steady
piece: RRRIP!! One of the
consequences of this method is
the easiness with which the
thematic elements of Cronenberg's films can be ignored. It
looks like a house of horrors
and, thus, it should be treated
as nothing but a week-end at
the mid-way.
Critically, Cronenberg has
been equally received and ignored. Marshall Delaney, a.k.a.
Saturday Night Magazine's exeditor Robert Fulford, deemed
Cronenberg's early Shivers, a.k.a.
The Parasite Murders, blasphemous for all the right reasons. Robin Wood, one of the
founding editors of the radical
quarterly Cine Action, has
termed the body of Cronenberg's work "socially regressive"
for all the left reasons.
The choice of such a critical
and public wild card as David
Cronenberg was a risky, but
not foolhardy, decision. With
Dead Ringers, David Cronenberg has finally caught up with
istic setting is, again, raise the
question of his status as one of
Canada's more prominent surrealists (surrealism by way of
Blue v'elvet, not Luis Bunuel).
While the documentary form
has been the calling card of
Canadian cinema form the time
that John Grierson founded
the National Film Board to the
present, documentaries tend to
be lumped in with experimential cinema as marginal forms
since the feature film is often
seen as the criteria of an individ ual country's cinematic
worth. Two Canadian documentaries at this year's Festival
Of Festivals; Ron Mann's
Comic Book Con.lldential and
Janis Cole and Holly Dale's
Calling the Shots, testify to the
process and innovation in the
documentary which has led to
the recent resurrection of the
form as part of our commercial
cinema (both films open this
Friday at the Carlton Cinema).
Like his earlier film Poetr~y
in Motion, Ron Mann's Comic
Book C011:fidential is an exploLecky and Nicolas Stirling of
Strange Nursery, operates in a
ration of a medium with its
own specific audience that
similar way. While it helps to
reflects an attitude to it's subbring the comics to life, it does 'ject that stems from a strong
not disrupt the quirky naughtemotional sense of why a
iness of a small child reading a
devoted audience devotes itself comic book late at night which
to the activities within that
is the dominant tone throughmedium. Comprised of interout the film.
views with such comic book Like their previous films
luminaries as Lynda Barry,
P4W: Prisonfor Women and
Robert Crumb, Stan Lee, Will
Hookers... on Davie, the latest
Eisener, William M. Gaines,
film from Janis Cole and Holly
Harvey Pekar and Art SpieDale, Calling the Shots, is a
gelman, the film allows it's subdocumentary concerned with
jects and their work to adapt to
people in a situation. Unlike
a kinetic medium with an
their previous work, Calling
innovative approach to form.
the Shots is not so much conWhen Mann pans across the
cerned with the situations of
surface of the printed page of a
those alienated by and from
comic book, it is the action
the larger society as it is with
within the image as opposed to
the accomplishments of a group
the movement of his camera
of people who have battled certhat brings the comic to life.
tain forces intent on sending
The music; by Shadowy Men
them to the margins of history
on a Shadowy Planet and Keith
• See Calling p.8
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Delanoe
Cashing in at the Diamond ...
a Glendon
Ie 19 septembre 1988
by Sara-jane Milne
When Andrew Cash takes to
the stage, you can't help but to
like him. The former L'Etranger
band member must be doing
something right, for this past
week he played a sold-out show
at the Diamond, and has been
nominated in three 1988
CASBY Award categories:
Most Promising Artist, Best
Male Vocalist and Single of the
Year for "Time and Place."
Andrew Cash offered his
annual "Bonehead" award to
Scarborough's Mayor Gus
Harris for two outrageous
comments he has recently made.
Firstly his proposal to dump
our garbage up in Northern
Ontario, and secondly his' report
that there are not enough houses
to accomodate the rich. Cash
then suggested that if Harris
did not accept his award, then
it should go to the media for
taking comments such as these
seriously.
As well as hIS obvious sense
of humour, Andrew Cash's
musical honesty spoke for itself
during Tuesday night's performance. He was not afraid to
admit that during one song, he
was slightly off-key. Cash took
the opportunity to try some
new songs out on the audience
and they were very well-
received.
Andrew spoke of his concern
for'the lack of housing for the
poor and about the ongoing
dilemma up in North Bay
between the lumberjacks and
Indians. If the lumberjacks
continue to cut down wood.,
then the Indians lose their
culture / heritage and if they
stop, the lumberjacks lose their
livelihood.
Now that's what I call refreshing: a relatively new artist
with as much talent, vitality
and social concern as Andrew
Cash. Catch him if you can;
he's well worth the money.
par Nathalie' Tousignant
La Maison de la Culture
presente jusqu'au 30 septembre
1988 une exposition des oeuvres
recentes de Mirca Delanoe.
Madame Delanoe, d'origine
javanaise, a re~u une formation
artistique a I'Academie des
Beaux Arts de La Haye, aux
Pays-Bas. Elle a participe a
quelques expositions d'ordre
Soiree de
poesJe
par Nathalie Tousignant
Mercredi Ie 28 septembre
1988, la Maison de la Culture
vous invite a passer une soiree
de poesie en compagnie de
I'auteure Madame Rosann
Runte.
Madame Runte est l'auteure
du receuil de poesie FA U xSOLEILS, publieen 1984 chez
les editions Naaman, pour
lequel elle fut recipiendaire du
prix Fran90is Coppee ainsi
qu'une medaille de bronze decernes ,par l' Academie Fran-
international en Europe, surtout
dans Ie domaine du portrait.
C'est cependant a Ottawa, ou
elle habite, qu'on a la chance
d'admirer ses ~euvres exposees
en permanence a la Galerie
Dolore's Leblanc-Patenaude.
Depuis son arrivee au Canada, Madame Delanoe s'est
surtout consacree a l'illustration de magazines pour enfants.
Toutefois ses derniers ouvrages
sont surtout inspires par la
nature, les souches d'arbres, les
ceps de vignes. Elle emploie
surtout comme medium l'encre
et Ie dessin.
Cette exposition intitulee la
realite et l'irrealite~ ou la realite
est la signifiance et l'irrealite, la
subjectivite humaine, l'artiste
nous fait partager son amour
pour un univers nouveau au Ie
mythique s'enchante avec Ie
conte de fee.
~aise.
Poesie, musique et presentation de diapositives animeront
cette reception. Soyez-y!
Pour de plus amples renseignements, veuillez contacter
Madame Jocelyne Benedek,
Directrice artistiq ue de la
Maison de la Culture, au
487-6730.
Andrew Cash at the Diamond, an enriching show
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September 19,1988
Gretzky's deal won't effect Oilers
by Charles Donsko.v
To borrow a very popular
idea from the David Letterman
show - The Top Ten Category - I have one of my own.
Today's category from ~he home
office of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan: Top Ten Reasons Why
Wayne Gretzky was Traded
from Edmonton to Los Angeles.
Reason #10. To give all the
other forwards in Edmonton
more ice time.
Reason #9. So that he could
live happily ever after with
Janet Jones Gretzky.
Rea'son #8. To earn the right to
have a star of his own in Hollywood's walk of.fame.
Reason #7. So that he. could
play baseball with Tommy
Lasorda and the boys.
Reason #6. So that he could
make guest appearances on
L.A. Law.
Reason #5. To get a good tan
for the start ofspring training.
Reason #4. So that he could sit
by Jack Nicholson at the
Laker games.
Reason #3. So that he would
be able to write, produce and
direct "The Wayne Gretzky
Story," starring Michael J.
Fox as the Great One,
Madonna as Janet Jones,
Craig T. Nelson as Glen
Sather and the Surgeo~
General of the U.S. as Peter
Pocklington.
Reason #2. To replace Johnny
Carson on the Tonight Show
when Gretzky's playing days
are over.
Drum roll please Harry...
Reason # I. So that he could
come over to Alan Thicke's
house, during the off days
within the hockey season,
and improve his tennis game.
All kidding and satire aside,
the trade will not hurt either
the L.A; Kings or the Edmon-'
ton Oilers.
The L.A. Kings received not
one but three quality players
from Edmonton who all bring
a winning attitude with them to
L.A.. I believe that Wayne
Gretzky, Mike Krushelnyski,
and M~rty McSorley
about nine Stanley Cup rings
worth of experience. And the
mere presence of someone like
Wayne Gretzky on the ice or in
the dressing room will only
produce better play from teammates and linemates.
Off the ice, the Kings and the
N. H. L. will benefit. The Kings
will surely see an increase in
home attendance by an aver-
age of 30004000 patrons, which
will result in bigger gate
receipts. On the road, the Kings
will probably sell out every
building. This will no doubt
benefit the other 20 teams in
being able to incr~ase their
own home attendance.
Since Gretzky has recently renegotiated his contract for
eight years, this should ensure
that L.A. will be a competitive
team for at least that amount
of tirp.e. The only question
marks that the Kings have are
about defence and goalte~d­
ing. If L.A. can improve itself
in these two areas, look for
them to be in the top ten consistently from year to year.
Turning to the Oilers, look
for them to be very competitive
once again. There can be no
question that Wayne Gretzky
sen
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team in the past, when the Oilers won four Stanley Cups.
And what he meant to the
team, coaches, his linemates on
and off the ice can never be
measured in any sense. However, Wayne Gretzky only
comprised one twentieth of the
Oilers. He was not God, although one certainly would
have trouble convincing the
Oiler fans. The majority of the
nucleus of players who played
in Edmonton the last two years,
for instance, are still in Edmonton. This year,players such as
Messier, Anderson, Lowe, and
soft-spoken Jari Kurri will
have to provide the bulk of the
leadership. And I think that
they will do this as the season
progresses. Oh sure, they' will
miss Gretzky at the beginning
of the season. The Oilers might
even play poorly and sulk a little but after two or three months
the team will get down to the
business of playing good winning hockey. The Oilers still
posess the potential of having
an explosive offensive team.
The additions of Jimmy Carson, and Craig Simpson last
year, will ensure that the Oilers"
will be at least a strong offensive team in.years to come. In
addition,the draft c;hoices that
tb.e. Oiler~rece.ive~ ~s p~rt . of
the trade from the Kings can
only help to benefit the Oilers
in the long run. Moreover, the
Oilers' defence appears to be
s~lid once agairi this year, as it
was last year.
The most important reason
as to why the Oilers will be
competitive, and one that has
been overlooked in the media,
is the play of Grant Fuhr. People seem to forget that in the
last couple of playoff years, the
Oilers have played many close
playoff games, winning the
majority of them, including low
scoring games. Grant Fuhr has
been in net for almost every
playoff game that the Oilers
have played over the past two
seasons. In my opinion, Grant
Fuhr had just as much to do
with the Oilers winning, not
only the last two years but the
last four out of five hockey seasons, as Wayne Gretzky did.
When the playoffs roll around
again in April, who else but
Fuhr will be in net? No one
else! The Oilers will never be
the same without Wayne
Gretzky. But this does not
necessarily correlate with the
notion that they will never
again compete for·the Stanley
Cup. As long as the nucleus
remains more or less the same
with Grant Fuhr in net, look
for the Oilers to be picked as
one of the top three or four
teams to win the cup again in
April.
Ie septembre
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19
1988
Calling the Shots
• From p.5
and won. Calling the Shots is
about women who make feature films.
Dale describes their method
of film-making as "direct
cinema." "It deals directly with
the camera either through capturing events as they happen,
or, by capturing the interview
situation. We made that conscious effort so that people
could get to know people that
they wouldn't normally get to
know by sitting down with
them and speaking with them
and having conversations. So
that they weren't just peering at
people, they were getting to
know them one on one."
Calling the Shots combines
the story of Ida Lapin, the first
woman director to hold a
D.G.A. card and an interview
with Katherine Hepburn where
she describes her working relationship with director Dorothy
Arzner in the Hollywood of the
30s and 40's with interviews
with women directors at work
in contemporary cinema. The
range of personalities and styles
covered in the interviews is
confined only to the fact that
each director is at work in the
production of feature films.
Lizzie 'Borden (Working Girls),
Agnes Varda (v agabond),
7
Cooledge (Fast Times at Ridgemont High) - a collection of
directors whose work provides
both ends of the feature filmmaking pendulum.
While this group demonstrates certain shared characteristics - a commitment to
making personal films which,
in itself, establishes them as
artists working outside the studio system despite the fact that
many of the directors depicted
work in connection with large
studios - the film rejects attempts to pigeon hole these
directors as constituting a genre.
While the celebration that
occurs within the film can be
seen as relating to a political
reality, Calling the Shots relates
it's political position to the personalities depicted.
"I don't think the women in
our film are angry at all, I don't
think it's a film that whines"
said Janis Cole. "I think that
it's a film where women show a
strong perseverance and tenacity in everything they say.
There's also a lot of humour.
There's even optimism in the
blackest of moments. For example, when Martha Coolidge
is talking about ten years ago
and how much things have
changed but there's still a long
way to go."
Calling the Shots panoramic personalities
cesses of women in penetrating
the political labyrinth of the
film industry on the level of an
engaging conversation with ·an
engaging personality.
For this same reason, Calling the Shots generates a sense
of anger from the way it often
moves towards providing a
more specific, analytical view
being involved in an extensive
dialogue about an important
social issue, one is left with the
feeling that all one has experienced is the trials and tribulations of a series of characters.
This short-coming of Calling
the Shots works towards the
over-all intention of the film.
The personalities that one is
Friday at the Carlton Cinemas.
The celebration and promotion of new directors and
approaches to ,cinema is a
secondary mandate for any
international film festival. At
the risk of presenting a ghetto
in the world cinema section.,
this year'the Festival Of Festivals esta blished a section titled
S-andy Wilson (A{v American
In a sense, Calling the Shots
of the problem and then years
left with are engaging and the
"New Voices/New
Cousin), Susan Seidelman (Desperatezv Seeking Susan), Lea
Pool (La Femme d'Hotel),
Penelope Spheeris (The Decline
"of Western Civilization), Margarette Von Trotta (Marianne
and Julienne) and Martha
as a whole also says that things
have changed but there's a long
way to go. Through the contact
with a number of pers·onalities
who have brought about many
of these changes, there is a
sense of recognizing the suc-
back into another anecdote to
Maintain its' celebratory tone.
This short-coming echoes, to a
lesser degree the examination
of the organization of televi'sion journalism in Broadcast
News. While there is a sense of
talk is straight. The question
that is asked is not about the
machinery of women in film,
but an invitation to see the
prescence of women in the film
industry not in terms of an
anomaly, but, as a reality.
In its description of the historical pattern of the headway'
made by women in the film
business, Calling the Shots outlines the way in which gains
made by one director help a
few others while failures are
used as fodder for the studio
systems's reluctance for all
things pe~sonal and/ or new.
Calling the Shots is an innovative work in terms of the size of
its undertaking and the directness of its formal method. It is
the first film to take a nonpatronizing and apolitical look
at the shifts in the studio system's conception of itself that
are necessary to accomodate
the shifts that are happening
within the films of recent cinema. It, as well as Comic Book
Co'?fidential, is opening this
showcase filnls which re'pre'sent one or both directions of
this title. Such films as Terence
Davies' Distant v'oices I Still
Lives and Krystztof Kieslowski's A Short Film About Killing exemplify the intentions of
such a showcase. The critical
and public response to these
films - Davies won the international film critics award - is an
example of the Festival's understanding of its audience's interests in the face of the odds
which run contrary to that
audience's needs.
There was less pagaentry,
'while an equal number of parties and press junkets, at this
year's Festival Of Festivals than
there have been over the past
few years. As with the problems with local theatres, this
stream-lined quality is quickly
becoming a distinguishing feature of Toronto's annual film
fest - a ritual equally concerned
with celebrating the harvest as
it is with the state of those
crops still growing in the field.
Classifieds
To the Girl wearing a pink sweater
last pub night, I'm deeply sorry for
what I said. Please forgive me. Yours
forever H.H.
To all those who signed up at Pro
Tem's clubs day table, p,lease drop
by and see us. Due to a bureaucratic
foul-up, the information was destroyed. Thank you, Ed.
Looking for shelter. Three quiet
students looking to either share or
rent themselves a place close to
Glendon. Inquiries care of Pro Tem
Debbe does R.G.
Wednesday 6 - 8.
D'Arcy just looks good.
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23rd, faculty, staff and students can
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2. shoes - adults and children
3. blankets
4. money
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